Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States... are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I'm a Nova Scotia bluenose. Since I was a baby, I've been watching men look at ships. It's easy to tell the ones they like. You're... only waiting to get her into deep water, aren't you--because she's yours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is not generally remembered, if known, by the descendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their firs...t memorable winter in the New World, they had for neighbors a colony of French no further off than Port Royal (Annapolis, Nova Scotia) ... where, in spite of many vicissitudes, they had been for fifteen years.... Though these founders of Acadie endured no less than the Pilgrims, and about the same proportion of them ... died the first winter at St. Croix, 1604-1605, sixteen years earlier, no orator, to my knowledge, has ever celebrated their enterprise ... while the trials which their successors and descendants endured at the hands of the English have furnished a theme for both the historian and poet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a si...n, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for "doing the best" for his children?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »